Syngenta, an R&D global leader in agriculture, is searching for a SE P&S Finance Business Partner & Costing Lead.
Role purpose:
- Performing Financial Planning & Analysis activities for East Europe production activities (Russia, Ukraine and ad-hoc in other East Europe areas)
- Owning and coordinating product costing activities across region
- Be a trusted partner to Russia and Ukraine production leads to provide insightful analysis and recommendations on the respective financials
- Driving improvements and technology adaptations in Financial Planning & Analysis processes
Accountabilities:
- How:
- Be a trusted finance business partner, supporting all activities in scope, on recurring and ad hoc finance topics
- Seamless engaging and interacting with finance communities and stakeholders
- Add value to organization through providing business insight, understanding the numbers and challenging the status quo
- Drive process simplification initiatives promoting digital ways of working across finance and functions
- Provide finance skillset in project / ad hoc assignments
- Build relationships across multiple finance functional teams to share and align best practices
- Develop understanding of Syngenta's business and interaction between the different business units and functional reporting lines
- What:
- Actuals: Month end closing:
- Analyse monthly sales and function and provide relevant commentaries and insights to finance and business stakeholders
- In collaboration with Accounting-to-Reporting teams, ensure accruals for sales deductions and function cost are properly reflected in reported monthly results
- Participate in month-end closing processes including lock meetings
- Financial analysis:
- Provide timely and insightful financial analysis to support business decisions, understanding business performance on a monthly / annual basis
- Leverage technology (SAC) to further develop (SAC stories) and fully utilize available reports to meet the needs of the various business owners, on time, with high quality
- Full accountability for the analysis and commentaries to business stakeholders for variance analysis of function cost reports
- Master data management:
- Ensure proper master data maintenance (cost centre structure, delegation of authorities, headcount reporting)
- Budgeting and Rolling Forecast processes:
- Provide reliable and timely budgets and latest outlooks for P&L in scope
- Provide support and guidance to business managers and function cost owners on achieving budget targets
- Participate in strategic business planning and business processes by preparing financial budgets and rolling forecasts
- Business review process: Support site monthly review process
- Prepare and collect insightful commentaries for robust reporting and analysis of variances
- Focus on reliable full year outlooks and risk/opportunity assessments
- Digital capabilities:
- Contribute to development and use of business intelligence tools, data visualisation and predictive analysis techniques
- Product costing activities
- Own and coordinate product costing exercise within finance and other contributing teams for seeds across region
- Ensure integrity of the master data and expected costing output
- Drive simplification initiatives for product costing activities (master data updates, checks, dashboard-based costing run checks)
Qualifications:
- Critical knowledge:
- Bachelor/Master/MBA/Business School in Economics or Finance
- Understanding of IFRS accounting, budgeting, forecasting and planning processes
- Excel & SAP knowledge are a must, business intelligence systems an advantage
- Understanding of Syngenta business, processes and industry drivers
- Critical experience:
- 5 years+ in Finance and Controlling is a must
- Critical technical, professional, and personal capabilities
- Analytical skills:
- Financial and accounting acumen
- Communication and presentation skills
- Ability to prioritize, especially to work under pressure and tight deadlines
- Ability to work independently as well as within (cross-) functional teams
- High focus and energy with a pragmatic mind set and solution-oriented approach
- Fluent English and Russian languages are required. Other languages are a plus